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There was gone (under Hawes Water).
placename:- Chapel Hill
site name:- Haweswater Reservoir
locality:- Mardale Green
locality:- Mardale
parish Shap Rural parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
building/s
coordinates:- NY474117
10Km square:- NY41

1Km square NY4711

descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)

Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
Page 159:-
...
... The tourist, by following the stream which issues out of it [Small Water], will soon fall down to
Chapelhill.- Mardale Chapel of Ease, in a picturesque and fertile situation, surrounded by lofty fells, stands here; and Chapelhill is the property and residence of the Holmes', whose ancestor came into this country with the Conqueror.

placename:- Chapelhill
person:- : Holmes Family
date:- 1839
period:- 19th century, early; 1830s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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